Improved vegetable-slicer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC J. O. PLUMER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED VEGETABLE-SLICER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,949, dated May 22,1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

' R; P, the plate with E E, the cutting-edges.

The object of my invention is to produce a compact and convenientmachine for slicing vegetables, such as apples, potatoes, 860., intoslices of uniform thickness, suitable for drying or cooking and othersimilar purposes.

My invention consists of a plate, of metal or other suitable substance,provided with cutting-edges so arranged in reference to it and areceptacle as to remove, when the plate is moved, slices of a uniformthickness from the substance placed within the receptacle.

It further consists in making the plate P of flexible sheet metal, withthe slicing-edges of the same piece and continuous therewith, so thatthey will admit of temporary adjustment inward or outward by pressureupon them, so as to vary the thickness of the slices taken from thesubstance operated upon.

It further consists in making the cuttingedges in a curved form and inso placing them in reference to the edge of the plate as to bring themin contact with the vegetable to be cut at an angle, so that theyoperate with a cleaving-stroke, similar to that of a saw, and requireless power than a direct cutting or chopping stroke.

It consists, further, in a support or stationary part provided with areceptacle to contain the substance to be out, and in its attachmentwith the plate in such a manner as to admit of a variation of thedistance between them, so as, in combination with the adjustment of theknives, to vary the thick ness of the slices.

My invention may be constructed in the following manner, viz: by unitinga support of wood or metal, as shown at S, with a plate, P, providedwith the slicing-edges E E, these two portions being screwed, riveted,or fastened together by any suitable mechanical means,

the plate being so arranged in reference to the support that thedistance between them may be varied by set-screws or the introduction ofsome medium between them, or by other similar means.

I am aware that machines have been made for chopping vegetables, such asturnips, pumpkins, &c., for cattle-feed; but in these the de vice,purposes, and effects are dissimilar from mine in the followingparticulars, viz: The cutting-edges are so constructed as not to admitof removing slices of uniform, thickness nor to admit of intendedvariation in the thickness of the same.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The disk P, with the raised cutting-edges E E, as described, inconnection with the support S and receptacle R, all substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

J. O. PLUMER.

Witnessesz WILLIAM H. CLIFFORD, GEORGE F. CLIFFORD.

